The girl, who was aged 15 at the time of the assault, represents Ireland in team and individual sports and was taking the bus home from a sports event when Mr Delaney attacked her.

The content of Mr Delaney’s racist slur to the teen wasn’t revealed in open court, but Judge Durcan told Mr Delaney ‘what you said was terrible and hurtful and a breach of the law in its own right and in this court we don’t tolerate [this]’.

In her victim impact statement, the secondary school student, now aged 17, said that Mr Delaney told her on the bus at Bunratty: ‘I should be shot like the rest of us, making a shooting gesture with his hands. He then made a racist comment and I asked him, “What did you say?” and he then hit me.’

The girl — who cannot be named by order of Judge Durcan — stated ‘after he hit me a young man saw what he had done and attacked him’.

In her statement, the girl said that as a result of the attack: ‘I have been hesitant to use public transport and this has put tremendous pressure on my parents to bring me everywhere I have to go for training matches and competitions for the multiple sports I participate in.’

Sgt Aiden Lonergan said that Mr Delaney was drunk and kept putting his feet on the teenage girl’s lap on the bus and she repeatedly pushed his feet off her lap. He then racially abused her and punched her chest.

Mr Delaney pleaded guilty to assault and had €1,000 compensation in court for the teenager. Judge Durcan convicted him of assault and also fined him €500.

He told Mr Delaney he knew that at the time, the defendant was ‘severely under the influence of an intoxicant’ and ‘going through a huge amount of pressure’. Judge Durcan stated, however, that was no excuse for what Mr Delaney had done.

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